{"id":41082,"date":"2011-10-30T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cains-libertarian-ad-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:40:00","slug":"cains-libertarian-ad-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/cains-libertarian-ad-of-the-year.php","title":{"rendered":"Cain&#8217;s &quot;libertarian&quot; ad of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-f9bn2zyymVo\/Tqyr1u6zEqI\/AAAAAAAAWzA\/r5ixSjadPmY\/s1600\/HermanCainsmall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d3f3c_HermanCainsmall.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Smoking issue a \"dog-whistle\" for libertarians<\/strong><\/p><p>From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/cain-ad-catches-fire-1212296.html\">AJC.com<\/a> \"Cain ad catches fire -- or blows smoke\":<\/p><blockquote><p>the grainy 55-second video has been a raging success, generating more than 1 million hits on YouTube by tweaking liberal outrage at the taboo cigarette habit -- and libertarian delight in liberal outrage.<\/p><p>The use of the cigarette was a calculated ploy, said Marty Kaplan, a professor of entertainment, media and society at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.<\/p><p>\"Smoking is a dog-whistle to libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, people mad at the &lsquo;nanny state,' \" said Kaplan, who was deputy campaign manager for presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984.<\/p><p>\"Plus, it vouches for Cain's &lsquo;authenticity.'\" Kaplan said in an email, \"The subtext is that only a real guy, not a cautious and opportunistic pol -- [like Cain rival Mitt] Romney -- would do something like this.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d3f3c_7828681836623105417-1788140321147333724?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking issue a \"dog-whistle\" for libertariansFrom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC.com \"Cain ad catches fire -- or blows smoke\":the grainy 55-second video has been a raging success, generating more than 1 million hits on YouTube by tweaking liberal outrage at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/cains-libertarian-ad-of-the-year.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}